{"id":322926,"date":"2020-05-03T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322926"},"modified":"2020-05-03T05:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T05:30:56","slug":"colonel-major-among-5-martyred-in-encounter-in-jammu-and-kashmirs-handwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/colonel-major-among-5-martyred-in-encounter-in-jammu-and-kashmirs-handwara\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonel, Major among 5 martyred in encounter in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Handwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_311840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311840\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311840\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/army.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army.jpg 459w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-311840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Five security personnel, including a Colonel and a Major were martyred in an encounter at a village in north Kashmir&#8217;s Handwara area, sources said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A police officer and two army soldiers also lost their lives in the gunfight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, Major Anuj and police sub-inspector Shakeel Qazi were killed after the hours-long firefight with terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The encounter began on Saturday after the army personnel and J&amp;K police launched a joint operation in the Handwara area of the district in north Kashmir following a tip-off about the presence of terrorists there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The security forces reached the area and tried to rescue civilians who had been taken hostage by the terrorists at a house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA team comprising\u00a0Army personnel and Jammu and Kashmir Police entered the target area occupied by the terrorists\u00a0and successfully extricated the civilians. However, during the process, the team was subjected to heavy volume of fire by the terrorists. In the ensuing fire fight two terrorists were gunned down and team of five security personnel attained martyrdom,&#8221; the officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five security personnel, including a Colonel and a Major were martyred in an encounter at a village in north Kashmir&#8217;s Handwara area, sources said on Sunday. A police officer and two army soldiers also lost their lives in the gunfight. Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, Major Anuj and police sub-inspector Shakeel Qazi were killed after the hours-long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[3483,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322928,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322926\/revisions\/322928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}